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Govt to pay interest on lost Super funds

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 23 OCT 2012
... government will be able to accrue valuable income by investing the cash while it lies dormant. However, shadow assistant treasurer Mathias Cormann has criticised the reforms describing them as a 'cash grab'. "This is another demonstration that this Labor ...

Labor's $30bn secret super tax plan revealed

LINDA HAUSKEN  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 OCT 2012
Shadow Assistant Treasurer Mathias Cormann is calling on Superannuation Minister Bill Shorten to come clean to Australians that they have to pay $30 billion in increased super taxes to assist the Labor government to pay for its $120 billion budget black ...

AFA conference boasts biggest turnout in 20 years

LINDA HAUSKEN  |  TUESDAY, 9 OCT 2012
... industry leaders such as Craig Meller AMP FS, Jeremy Cooper Challenger, and Senator Mathias Cormann Shadow Assistant Treasurer. Between them, they'll be addressing the key issues of the year, including FOFA implementation, the blooding of new talent ...

Super governance Bill passes amid cries of favouritism

BEN COLLINS, MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  THURSDAY, 16 AUG 2012
... ignored others which are as important. In a statement yesterday a spokesperson for Mathias Cormann, shadow assistant treasurer and shadow minister for financial services and superannuation claimed that a scale test helped "union dominated" industry super ...

No roadblocks to success: Cormann

BEN COLLINS  |  FRIDAY, 3 AUG 2012
Mathias Cormann, Shadow Assistant Treasurer and Shadow Minister for Financial Services and Superannuation, came out swinging yesterday, accusing the Federal government of implementing "chaotic and unpredictable" regulations. Cormann swore a "blood oath ...

Trust tax reform can be split

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  TUESDAY, 31 JUL 2012
Assistant Treasurer David Bradbury's announcement yesterday of a further delay to tax reform for trusts has sparked debate over the relative merit of using the same timetable for a number of reform strands. Speaking at a CPA Australia lunch yesterday ...

Cormann criticises trust reform delay

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  MONDAY, 30 JUL 2012
... delay on promised tax reform for managed investment trusts. In a statement issued this morning following news Assistant Treasurer David Bradbury would announce the delay today, Cormann said three consecutive pushbacks had already scared off stakeholders. ...

Ernst & Young appoints Nick Sherry

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  TUESDAY, 24 JUL 2012
... the Cooper Review on the operation, cost and efficiency of Australia's super system. He held the position of Assistant Treasurer from 2009-2010 and most recently served in the Gillard government as Minister for Small Business and Minister Assisting Deregulation ...

Foreign MIS tax legislation delayed

BEN COLLINS  |  THURSDAY, 21 JUN 2012
... from a bill before parliament yesterday. The measure proposed to double the rate from 7.5% to 15%, forcing assistant treasurer David Bradbury to table a separate bill for the tax measure, which was to have started from 1 July 2012. Bradbury said the ...

CPA responds to advice exemption

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  TUESDAY, 1 MAY 2012
... exemption for accountants in line with that granted to financial advisers yesterday. The decision, announced by Assistant Treasurer David Bradbury, extends financial advisers' current exemption from the taxation agent services regime by 12 months beyond ...